Gabrielle Hecht

Hecht is professor of history at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II and the forthcoming Being Nuclear: African and the Global Uranium Trade.

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Articles by Gabrielle Hecht

1 March 2012
Features

An elemental force: Uranium production in Africa, and what it means to be nuclear

Gabrielle Hecht
Opinion
9 January 2012
Nuclear Energy

Nuclear nomads: A look at the subcontracted heroes

Gabrielle Hecht

In the days after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station last March, the international media celebrated the heroism of the "Fukushima 50" -- the plant and emergency workers who exposed themselves to extremely high radiation levels to get the reactors under control. Their efforts, it seems, were doomed from the start. Three of the reactor cores melted down anyway. And the cleanup will take decades.